Written by the world’s leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language, highlighting changes in phonology, tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon. It is an invaluable resource for specialists in African and Afroasiatic languages, as well as general historical linguists and typologists.
250pp
Aug. 2024 9781009124300 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009128070
NEW IN PAPERBACK A Phonological History of Chinese
Shen, Zhongwei | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.
Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers
Woodard, Roger D. | University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age.
Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora
Bates, Crispin | The University of Edinburgh, UK
Examines the viewpoints and voices of indentured Indians who exercised agency, resisted and manipulated the colonial labour system to their advantage, and went on to build new lives for themselves overseas following the expiration of their contracts. It studies the role of women and their struggles for rights, freedom and opportunities.
Global South Asians
412pp
Archaeological theory, method
Advance Directives Across Asia
A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
Cheung, Daisy | The University of Hong Kong
This book will appeal not only to Asian scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of health law and ethics and end-of-life care more generally, but will also be of wider interest to an international academic audience in the fields of law, ethics and health and social care research.
371pp
Aug. 2024 9781009153812 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security
Chen, Kuan-Jen | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
This book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective. The first of its kind in the English language, this book is for students, military professionals, specialists in East Asian history, and readers interested in international history more generally.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
350pp
May 2024 9781009418751 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009418737
Earth and environmental science
Environmental policy, economics and law
Cold War Asia
A Visual History of Global Diplomacy
Phillips, Matthew | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK
This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.
The top courts in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have reshaped constitutional law on non-discrimination, criminal due process, and free speech. This volume explores how their constitutional jurisprudence has converged in the process.
Soboslai, John | Montclair State University, New Jersey
This diverse study offers insights into practices of martyrdom within specific socio-political contexts. Analyzing martyrdom through political theology, John Soboslai examines self-sacrifice in four religious traditions during social and political crises, from second century Christianity in Asia Minor to 21st century Tibetan Buddhism. 458pp
Carothers, Christopher | University of Pennsylvania Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes argues that authoritarian anti-corruption reform is more common than widely thought and follows a different playbook than democratic anticorruption reform. Using case studies from China, South Korea, and Taiwan, Christopher Carothers constructs an original theory of authoritarian corruption control.
Dressel, Bjoern | Australian National University, Canberra
This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that have shaped the emergence of modern courts in the region and providing a basic typology of courts and politics.
Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century IndoPacific Brixius, Dorit
The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly Global history of botanical knowledge.
Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift
Implications for Competition between China and the United States
Chan, Steve | University of Colorado
Boulder
A country’s culture influences its economic growth and its competitiveness. Confucian heritage has promoted China’s rapid economic growth, and East Asia is poised to become the most important region of the world’s political economy. What do these patterns and trends augur for China and the United States as they compete for international primacy?
By prioritizing a strong foundation in international relations theory, combined with an innovative focus on evolutionary theory, this textbook provides a fresh, analytical approach to understanding East Asia’s history and present state of affairs. Chapters cover contemporary themes in both ancient world order and European imperialist contexts.
The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World
McManus, Stuart M. | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Ideas in Context
314pp
May 2024 9781108821735 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108909181
NEW IN PAPERBACK
English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
Global Challenges and Local Responses
Tsui, Amy Bik May | The University of Hong Kong
Written by local specialists, this book covers the impact of globalization on language policy, English language teaching and teacher education in ten Asian jurisdictions. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in English language education, teacher education, language policy and sociolinguistics.
Cambridge Education Research
255pp
Mar. 2024 9781108790598 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108856218
Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion
Buijsen, Martin | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
This Element overviews developments and issues in Dutch euthanasia practice. Some current issues are explored in depth: euthanasia and incompetency, euthanasia by non-physicians, and euthanasia for those who consider their lives completed. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World Shanazarova, Aziza | Columbia University, New York Invites readers into the complex and little-known world of female religiosity and authority in early modern Central Asia, offering a unique analysis of the story of Aghā-yi Buzurg. Intended for scholars, educators and students of Islamic studies and Central Asian history, as well as those interested in gender history and Sufism.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 196pp
May 2024 9781009386340 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009386371
First Cities
Planning Lessons for the 21st Century
Saitta, Dean | University of Denver
This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind’s first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century 94pp
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
Choudhury, Rishad | Oberlin College, Ohio
A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
This Element elucidates the metamorphoses of Heidegger’s comportment toward Eastern/Asian thought from the 1910s to the 1960s. With a holistic view to all kinds of ‘East’, it considers how Heidegger’s diversified ‘dialogues’ with the East are embedded in the course of his Denkweg in different phases.
Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger 92pp
On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Exploring the secular credentials and religious redesignations of art, this book is anchored in a conception of a region. Fissured by partitions, state-formations and religious nationalisms, this idea of a region still stands here as a collective site for interrogating the secularity of art, its histories and its politics.
Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947
Holland, David | University of Sheffield
Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, presenting a fresh and inspiring picture of settlement and inter-racial tolerance.
Modern British Histories
369pp
Language and linguistics
Applied linguistics and second language acquisition
International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity
Noorda, Rachel | Portland State University
This Element explores how contemporary readers’ understandings of nation, race/ethnicity, gender, and class continue to shape their reading, using as case studies the online reception of three bestseller titles-Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies (Australia), Zadie Smith’s NW (UK), and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (USA).
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
78pp
Aug. 2024 9781009216203 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009216210
Intercultural Philosophy and Environmental Justice between Generations
Indigenous, African, Asian, and Western Perspectives
Abe, Hiroshi | Kyoto University
This book offers new perspectives on environmental philosophy and intergenerational justice, drawing on Indigenous, African, Asian, and Western traditions. It is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of environmental law and policy, environmental humanities, political science, intercultural and comparative philosophy, and policymakers.
238pp
Mar. 2024 9781009343749 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009343756
May 2024 9781009108485 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99
eISBN 9781009104388
Journey to the Centre of the Self
Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Psychiatrists in the UK
Arya, Rina | University of Hull
This book explores the lived experiences of South Asian psychiatrists in the UK through reflective accounts. Discussion covers the negotiation of distinctive cultural identities in their bearing on belonging, identity and marginalisation. It will appeal to readers interested in the unique insights into mental health that these psychiatrists bring.
Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order
Robinson, David M. | Colgate University, New York David Robinson explores the collapse of the Mongol empire and the rise of its successors across Eurasia through the experiences of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Charting the way this East Asian ruler navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, Robinson offers a fresh perspective on a transformative period of history.
Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Bahl, Christopher D. | Durham University
In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, locating South Asia as a key node of connection.
Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia
Aspinall, Edward | Australian National University, Canberra
This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It will be useful for scholars and students interested in comparative and Southeast Asian politics, electoral politics, clientelism and patronage, and the historical development of political institutions.
An accessible and relevant introduction to the ancient Indian linguistic tradition, this book assesses the influence of Indian linguistic thought on Western linguistics. It is essential reading for scholars and students of theoretical and historical linguistics, as well as those interested in Indian languages, and Indian/South Asian Studies.
278pp
Public international Law
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India
Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858
Schofield, Katherine Butler | King’s College London
Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive in Indian languages and Persian, this book reawakens the lost voices of celebrated Indian musicians, men and women, who endured the momentous transition from Mughal to British rule. It will appeal to readers interested in Indian music, global music history, South Asian history, empire and colonialism.
343pp
Aug. 2024 9781009048521 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009047685
Nund Rishi
Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir
Bazaz, Abir | Ashoka University
This book is a critical study of the mystical poetry of one of Kashmi’s greatest Sufis - Nund Rishi. It analyses his poetry as a form of ‘negative theology’. This volume will be of value to those interested in poetry, South Asian literature, Kashmir, Sufism and bhakti.
Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
Parasher, Tejas | University of California, Los Angeles
Mar. 2024 9781009364508 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009364522
Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia.
Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
Bennett, Andrew E. | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Ancient genomics techniques are used to study East Asian population history, providing insights into past population’s cultural and linguistic dispersals. This element provides an overview of our current understanding of the population history of East Asia through ancient genomics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Ancient East Asia
Shimojo, Mitsuaki | State University of New York, Buffalo
Featuring a wide range of authentic language examples, this book uses the framework of Role and Reference Grammar to explore how ‘salience’ is conveyed in Japanese. It is essential reading for researchers and students of syntax and its interfaces with pragmatics and discourse, as well as linguists of Asian languages.
Using qualitative methods, this book shows how Pakistan’s judiciary shifted from deference to competition with the military, developing a framework that explains judicial-military relations in authoritarian and post-authoritarian states. It illuminates ongoing debates in the fields of Law, political science, postcolonial and South Asian studies.
Lewis, Mark Edward | Stanford University, California
This Element explores the development of selfcultivation methods in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia, analyzing textualization, systematization, and dissemination among social groups. It explores body models, vitality cultivation, disease models, and therapies, comparing them with early Western medical traditions.
Elements in Ancient East Asia
75pp
Politics, social theory, history of ideas
East Asian government, politics, policy
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
Lim, Merlyna | Carleton University, Ottawa
This Element studies the link between social media and Southeast Asian politics and its dual role in fostering grassroots activism and enabling algorithmic politics. It shows the platform’s alignment with communicative capitalism, facilitating oppositional forces but susceptible to authoritarian capture and mutual algorithmic/ political dynamics.
Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary | University of Eastern Finland
Sovereign Atonement makes an excellent use of a highly specific and in many ways unusual empirical case to build a set of novel theoretical arguments that engages with and contributes to a broad audience of geography, anthropology, political science, post-colonial, and South Asian studies suited for academics, journalists, and practitioners. South Asia in the Social Sciences
This Element explores the cycle of sub-state nationalist mobilization in Southeast Asia due to insufficient inclusion and authoritarian state use. To reduce mobilization, the state changed policies to recognize group distinctiveness and accommodate regional/local territorial units, focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.
International relations, international organisations
State Building in Cold War Asia
Comrades and Competitors on the SinoVietnamese Border
Yin, Qingfei | London School of Economics and Political Science
Departing from conventional studies of border confrontation and weaving together international, national, and transnational-local histories, Yin presents a new approach to Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the revolutionary states’ competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.
This book fills a critical gap in understanding statelessness in Asia, offering a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive set of perspectives. This book brings case studies and expertise together to explore this important issue and offers new insights as to what it means to be, de facto and de jure, stateless.
Critically discusses the increasing significance of Asian States in the field of international investment Law and policy. Contains analyses of national investment Law rule-making in Asia, contributions of Asian States on cutting-edge developments to the global community, and contemplates future possibilities for investor-State dispute settlement. 467pp
An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre’s impact on arts, culture, and society around the world. Twenty chapters by North and South American, European, and Asian contributors, some publishing in English for the first time, collectively cover tango’s history, culture, and performance practice.
Cambridge Companions to Music 414pp
The
Last Caravan
Camels, Traders and Markets in the Middle East
Pétriat, Philippe | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Analyses the history of the lesser-known interior of the Middle East where radical transformations shaped the region we know today. The book connects the history of deserts to that of the cities, and the links between the Middle East to the African Sahara and the Eurasian steppes.
The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
Foster, Christopher J.
This Element encourages scholars to critically examine their relationships to their sources and reflect upon the impact of their research. The three essays in this Element present a range of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on systemic issues and the nuances of method versus ethics. Elements in Ancient East Asia
The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
Bates, Jennifer | Seoul National University
The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 –1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment. It synthesizes the available data on genetics, archaeobotany, and Archaeology.
The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia
Ford, Michele | University of Sydney
This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region’s key destination countries. It discusses why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia. Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Mar. 2024 9781108971423 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Mar. 2024 9781108838474 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781108974936
eISBN 9781108673914
The Port
Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia
Hang, Xing | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
At the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia, The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), under the autonomous rule of the Chinese creole Mo clan, prospered as a free-trade emporium during the eighteenth century. Its remarkable story sheds fresh light on a transitional period in maritime East Asian history.
Whalen-Bridge, Helena | National University of Singapore Law may provide relief for some of life’s troubles, but that requires access to justice. This book expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK, to Asia and other jurisdictions. It considers functioning systems of mandatory public interest activities and provides English translations of relevant regulation.
390pp
Sociology
Political Sociology Uneasy Allies
Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949
Fredman, Zach | Duke Kunshan University
Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK, and the US, the chapters in this volume reveal how grassroots engagements between Americans and Chinese during World War II shaped the development of the postwar order in Asia and continue to influence Sino-US relations today.
The Hellenistic Temple Tradition in Asia Minor Yegul, Fikret | University of California, Santa Barbara Offering a close archaeological analysis of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, this book provides new insights into its unique design; the changing nature of religious and cult practices at the temple; the relationship to its setting and benefactors. It places this extraordinary temple in the larger context of Greek and Roman religious architecture.
Mar. 2025 9781009532167 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009532143
Religion
History of Religion
Trials
of
Sovereignty
Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857–1922
McClure, Alastair | The University of Hong Kong
Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentiethcentury India. Key chapters examine royal amnesty, codification, capital punishment, and sedition. It will benefit students and scholars interested in legal history, South Asian studies, criminology, and imperial history.
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